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The inner ear has two types of hair cells. One type is responsible for amplifying the incoming soft signals and the other one is responsible for taking the amplified signal and handing it off to the nerve to go to the brain. Which is which? |
The outer hair cells amplify and the inner hair cells and off the signals to the nerve |
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The inter ear is filled with fluid where as the middle ear is filled with_____ |
Air |
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What is tentative and is it a common or a rare disorder? |
It is the ringtone you get in your ears and it is a common disorder |
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Early pioneers of Audiology came from the profession? |
Speech pathology and otology |
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Another name for cycles per second is ________. It was named after a famous person so even the abbreviation is capitalized! Today instead of saying 1000 cycles per second with a thousand _________. |
Hertz; Hz |
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Often people who have hearing loss also have concerns about dizziness. This may be caused by something that is affecting not only the cochlear side of the inner ear but the _______ side of the inner ear |
Vestibular |
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What are some of the specialties of Audiology |
Pediatric audiology K9 audiology Diagnostic audiology Educational audiology |
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The inner ear Sons included information up to the brain via the ____cranial nerve |
8th |
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The auditory nerve also carries another stream of information that has nothing to do with hearing what is it? |
Balance or vestibular information |
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What is the unit of intensity that we use to measure and report a specific sound character. In other words if I use a sound level meter to measure babies crying I would say "wow that baby scream measured 95_____? |
Decibels dB |
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The proper anatomical name for the eardrum is the |
Tympanic membrane |
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The eardrum is composed of _ layers: the ____ layer, the ____ layer, and the ____ layer |
3 Epithelial Fibrous Mucosal |
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Stiffness of a vibration system changes were that system wants to vibrate fast. If I make a systems differ it will want to vibrate best at a _____ frequency. Where is if I make the system less stiff it will want to vibrate at a ______ frequency |
Higher Lower |
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In order to practice audiology in the 50 states a practitioner needs to be ____ |
Licensed |
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What is the relationship between frequency and its wavelength |
The higher the frequency the shorter the wavelength |
